The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XIII. The Rescue, sentence 3

There was great rejoicing among the yellow Winkies, for they had been made to work hard during many years for the Wicked Witch, who had always treated them with great cruelty.

Who acts: Winkies · What happens: be, rejoice, make, work, treat · To what, where: Winkies, Wicked Witch

This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XIII. The Rescue. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winkies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	xcomp
4	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 great	advcl
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 Winkies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Winkies	det
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Winkies	amod
8	Winkies	Winky	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 rejoicing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 made	aux:pass
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rejoicing	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 work	mark
16	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 work	advmod
18	during	during	ADP	_	20 years	case
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 years	amod
20	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 work	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 Witch	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Witch	det
23	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Witch	amod
24	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 work	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 treated	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 treated	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 treated	aux
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 treated	advmod
29	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Witch	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 treated	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 cruelty	case
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cruelty	amod
33	cruelty	cruelty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 treated	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there		great property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rejoice	gerund					among the yellow Winkies	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	past · perfect · passive		Winkies = winky				tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	Winkies = winky not said here			year	for the Wicked Witch; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for witch=Beneficiary
5	treat	past · perfect · passive		the Wicked Witch			with great cruelty; always property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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